Posted on 04/04/2003 4:54:10 AM PST by kattracks
Belgium's VTM television signs up Peter Arnett
BRUSSELS, April 4 (Reuters) - Belgian commercial television station VTM said on Friday it had signed up veteran U.S. reporter Peter Arnett to provide daily coverage on the war in Iraq from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Pulitzer-prize winner Arnett was sacked by American TV network NBC after he told Iraqi television the U.S. war plan against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had failed.
Britain's tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mirror, one of the most prominent opponents of Britain's involvement in the war, earlier this week said it had also hired the reporter.
New Zealand-born Arnett, 68, who as a CNN reporter in 1991 was one of the few Western journalists reporting from Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War, said in an interview on Sunday with state-owned Iraqi TV that the U.S. military would need to rewrite its war plan.
Arnett won a Pulitzer prize for his Vietnam War coverage.
04/04/03 07:48 ET
Isn't the pulitzer prize the one where the anyone, including the author, can nominate himself?
Well, it sounds like it is the prize that can be gained by people who submit false reporting.
BENEDICT ARNETT, PURVEYOR OF ANTI-U.S. PROPAGANDA By: Doug Schmitz
Actually, Arnett’s Communist mentality dates back to the Vietnam War."In that conflict, Arnett attempted to float - not once, but twice - the contrived story of the dread and deadly chemical weapons (common teargas, as it turned out) being deployed by the barbaric and murderous American military machine," Marzullo reported on March 31.
"Undismayed by having been found out, and after being rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize (similar to the 1930s prize for "debunking" Stalin’s coldly calculated, but well-documented Ukrainian genocide), Arnett skipped off merrily into the sunset with his North Vietnamese bride to later appear on CNN."
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